Update about POD releases on Miskatonic Reapository

[MOB]

Please note that until further notice OneBookShelf, who run DriveThruRPG, has asked us (Chaosium) not to approve and pass on to them any further Print-On-Demand requests for community content. This is for operational reasons at their end.

You may not be aware, but the process to create each POD test print is time-consuming and sometimes problematic for OBS. For those reasons the practice was discontinued outright for the DM's Guild. We are fortunate it is allowed on the Miskatonic Repository, but that is by their discretion. 

Chaosium has a very long-standing and successful partnership with OBS/DTRPG, which we are not going to take advantage of. Not every MR community title needs to be or should be available as POD. So, going forward, we have advised creators that only titles that have achieved Electrum seller status in PDF format (250 sales) shall be eligible for consideration for POD.

The Electrum threshold comes from us (Chaosium), not OBS. We have instituted this to help our community content programs stay in OBS's good graces. We have to be mindful of how often we approve titles to get processed for POD publishing on DTRPG. They have a limited capacity to add POD titles on their site.

MOB - Chaosium Inc.

Edited July 17, 2020 by MOB

[klecser]

@MOB Can I clarify what this actually means? This means that not only will new products not be available for POD on DTRPG, but old products that the Choasium community has been clamoring for to become available as POD (Armies of Dragon Pass comes to mind as a popular request) are also unlikely to become newly available as POD, correct?

[MOB]

2 minutes ago, klecser said:

@MOB Can I clarify what this actually means? This means that not only will new products not be available for POD on DTRPG, but old products that the Choasium community has been clamoring for to become available as POD (Armies of Dragon Pass comes to mind as a popular request) are also unlikely to become newly available as POD, correct?

There a several titles with OBS underway but TAaEoDP is not one of them.

[soltakss]

On 7/17/2020 at 1:17 PM, MOB said:

TAaEoDP

Now, that is an acronym and a half.

[MOB]

Miskatonic Repository creators – you will be aware we have a rule in place that a title must reach Electrum Seller status (250+ copies) before being eligible for Print-On-Demand. This is to assist OneBookShelf, who have limited capacity to add POD titles on their site. We are fortunate POD is allowed on our community programs at all (it was stopped for the DM's Guild), but that is kindly at OBS's discretion.

However, please note that Chaosium may, from time-to-time, approve a Miskatonic Repository title for POD *before* it reaches 250+ sales. We may even approve a title for POD on initial release. This is at our discretion, and will be done for internal Chaosium business reasons.

Please do not ask. If we want a particular title to be POD before it reaches Electrum sales status, we will get in touch with you! — MOB, Chaosium Inc.